Moving data

By Kees on October 5, 2007 1:25 PM |
In the connected state that we are in most of the time, we tend to gather insane amounts of digital data. When it is time to move, efforts must be made to ensure that this data is not lost. I have three main 'data repositories':

1. The hard-drives of my main home server;
2. An external 500 GB hard drive;
3. A portable 60GB USB drive

In addition, I have data on two laptops, but those laptops do not contain anything irreplaceable.
To spread the risk a bit, I am going for the following approach:

Shipping container
  •  Main computer 
  • One laptop
  • 500 GB external hard drive
Checked luggage
  • Hard drives of main computer
Carry-on luggage
  • One laptop
  • Small portable 60 GB USB drive
In addition, I am going to leave behind a DVD with our most important files with a trusted source in the Netherlands. That should limit the risk that anything gets lost during the move sufficiently. I have also briefly thought about encrypting the backup data, but the risk of accidental exposure is minimal: the container gets sealed before it leaves to go on the ship, the hard drives in the checked luggage only contain Linux xfs filesystems and the drive in the Carry-on luggage is NTFS-formatted and uses Windows filesystem encryption.

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